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Alice Connor

Women ot the Bible and their Stories of Violence, Mercy, Bravery, Wisdom, Sex, and Salvation

Women in the Bible aren't shy or retiring; they're fierce and funny and demanding and relevant to 21st-century people.

Women in the Bibles. Some of their names we know, others we've only heard, and others are tragically unnamed.

Pastor and provocateur Alice Connor introduces these women and invites us to see them not as players in a man's story as victims or tempters nor as morality archetypes, teaching us to be better wives and mothers, but as fierce foremothers of the faith.

These women's stories are messy, challenging, and beautiful. When we read their stories, we can see not only their particular, fearsome lives but also our own.

Alice Connor is an Episcopal priest and college chaplain. She is the author of How to Human: An Incomplete Manual for Living in a Messed- Up World. Alice is a certified enneagram teacher and a stellar pie-maker.
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Published 2017-02-01 by Fortress Press

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The 'old, old story' concerns 'all the king's men' or 'all the president's men.' The 'new, new song' is about all the women who belong to the coming realm of liberty and justice. Alice Connor is a skillful artist who knows how to transpose old, old stories into new, new songs. In her lively imagination the old old stories do not stay old. They are powerfully and accessibly new and contemporary for our time and place. Connor knows that feminism is about power. She shows how these ancient stories are filled with powerful futures. --Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary